Len has the lowest Council attendance

Mayor Len Brown had the worst attendance at Auckland Council’s most important meetings last year.

The Herald on Sunday has analysed attendance records for all 21 elected councillors across the four committees that made the biggest decisions – the Auckland Development Committee, the Finance and Performance Committee, and the Regional Strategy and Policy Committee – collectively known as “Committees of the Whole”.

Council’s primary decision-making arm, the Governing Body, which also expects all councillors to attend, was also included.

Across 47 meetings, outgoing mayor Brown and experienced councillor Christine Fletcher were around the table the least, attending 33 meetings (70 per cent).

The Mayor is the one you expect to attend the most meetings, not the least.

Padriv Ustoev

hmmokrightitis

Well of course hes given up, he knows he can just drift through his remaining months. Primary focus will be on his next role. I predict he will “take time off to be with his family” closely followed by starting to appear on a range of boards of companies that have a great deal to do with public sector work…

But then what would I know. Maybe Penny will hire him as a consultant 🙂

David Garrett

Viking: I suggest you do two things: learn the constitutional difference between the roles of Prime Minister of a country and mayor of a city, and secondly, try and gain some understanding of the difference in workload between the two jobs.

But allow me to help…Key is a member of several cabinet committees, each of which he is chair. He will also have functions as a member of caucus – delegateable it’s true – and also functions as leader of his party. Brown has none of those. Both men have their “public” duties, opening things and the like…Key’s being about ten times more onerous in terms of time than Brown’s.

One of the many reasons no New Zealand PM in recent times has ever been suspected of what Brown has admitted to doing in the Ngati Whatua room is that they simply wouldnt have the time to do it. Key’s day – like that of his Ministers – is choreographed to the minute.

mikenmild

David Garrett

Milky: I have absolutely no idea how scheduled an American president is…other than they seem always to be “on vacation”.. I do have a very good understanding of how scheduled a New Zealand PM’s time is…but no doubt you know better than me…

mikenmild

David Garrett

Milky: Ok, I’ll play…let us know what you know…but yet again you are not reading comments properly…I’m quite certain POLITICIANS have had sex at parliament….I was talking about serving PM’s…in recent times…

mikenmild

I don’t have any specific allegation to make, David. I merely suggest that history and human nature would run counter to your assumption that NZ prime ministers would be too busy to fool around in office hours.

Viking: I suggest you do two things: learn the constitutional difference between the roles of Prime Minister of a country and mayor of a city, and secondly, try and gain some understanding of the difference in workload between the two jobs.

But allow me to help…Key is a member of several cabinet committees, each of which he is chair. He will also have functions as a member of caucus – delegateable it’s true – and also functions as leader of his party. Brown has none of those. Both men have their “public” duties, opening things and the like…Key’s being about ten times more onerous in terms of time than Brown’s.

One of the many reasons no New Zealand PM in recent times has ever been suspected of what Brown has admitted to doing in the Ngati Whatua room is that they simply wouldnt have the time to do it. Key’s day – like that of his Ministers – is choreographed to the minute.
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DG. There is not a lot of difference between the them except to say that Brown works alone whereas Key has a line of delegated authority for others to take his place.
Do you think for any short time that Brown has less to do than Key?
And that’s the point I was making.
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As I understand it Brown doesn’t have the power to have “ministers” in charge so many functionaries report to him direct or via the CEO, who essentially has similar issues . Its a big organization , with many CCO’s as well.and then there is the public to deal with as well as running the council itself.

I understand some think the sun shines from Keys back end and that most of those also think Brown is a prick but given the mess he inherited from people like Banks and others and progress that Auckland has, and will continue to make, allow him some kudos. That of course doesn’t excuse his behavior but as MM has pointed out you don’t need to live in Wellington nor around MP’s for that long to know many are just as bad.
There are a few I could tell you about before your time. There have been some in this govt. that are hardly paragons of virtue.

And I might remind you that the Nats. were responsible for the final legislation for the Auckland Council including changing and adding some things that Rodney disagreed with but they were treated like your 3s legislation. Watered down or changed to suit the first people against his advice.

So defending those duplicitous pricks doesn’t seem to me to be your finest hour.

What a disgraceful leech this guy is…and possessed of so little self insight that he actually thought he could stand again!

I might apply to be GG after Dame Patsy…
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Well of course you may have read all about her duplicity as well then if you read the article about a week ago, about her involvement in court in a case about the rorting of Richmond by Silver Fern Farms for a mere sum of 20 million dollars. I think Justice Young was the Judge. He was less than impressed.

But lawyers look after lawyers in the end.

didn’t do Silver Fern Farms any good in the end, buggered Richmond and now I see SFF is in the crap again after selling most of itself to the chows.
Sooner it goes broke the better for farming. still that law firm made an immoral dollar or two.